The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Leo Varadkar TD has welcomed the very successful visit to Ireland by the Vice-President of China, Xi Jinping, which concluded today (Monday). Minister Varadkar said the visit of Vice-President Xi will be of tremendous benefit to Ireland’s tourism industry, which has received unprecedented exposure on Chinese media through [...]
The HSE has confirmed plans to close the psychiatric unit at St Joseph’s District Hospital in Ballina this year, according to local Fianna Fáil TD Dara Calleary. Deputy Calleary has described it as a ‘dark day’ for mental health services in north Mayo. “These damaging cuts were confirmed in the HSE West Service Plan published [...]
SDLP South Down MP Margaret Ritchie has supported calls for an Office of Fair Trading investigation into the transparent pricing of fuel in Northern Ireland and secured a Westminster Hall debate on the topic this week. The UK Parliamentary debate, which takes place on Wednesday, will look at the cost of fuel duties in [...]
2012 M. Donnelly Inter Provincial semi final (formerly Railway Cup) Ulster 3-16 Connacht 0-13 Game played at Markievicz Park, Sligo A perfect afternoon for gaelic football in the north west, but a strong Ulster squad put Connacht to the sword by half time, continuing their frustration in the GAA inter provincial series. The reigning champions [...]
SDLP Foyle MLA Pat Ramsey has said that dissident group Republican Action Against Drugs has no support among the vast majority of the Derry community. Speaking ahead of the ‘RAAD – Not in Our Name’ rally to protest against the murder of Derry man Andy Allen, who was shot dead in his Buncrana home [...]
Donegal Sinn Féin TD, Pádraig Mac Lochlainn has welcomed SIPTU’s decision to oppose the household charge. Speaking after SIPTU’s NEC voted unanimously to oppose the charge, Deputy Mac Lochlainn said: “SIPTU’s decision to come out against the household charge is a significant blow to the government’s plans to impose this unjust tax. SIPTU is the [...]
Former Armagh All-Ireland winning manager and current Ulster GAA team boss Joe Kernan has hit out at the way that Jim McGuinness was cornered on TG4 after last Sunday NFL clash between Donegal and Laois in Letterkenny’s O’Donnell Park. “My disgust was replicated on Sunday when I witnessed the insensitive manner in which Donegal manager [...]
Brian McLaughlin has made four personnel and three positional changes for Ulster’s important RaboDirect PRO12 clash with Cardiff on Friday (kick off 7.05pm). Paddy Wallace, Tom Court and Chris Henry have been released from Ireland duty and they go straight into the starting XV along with Nigel Brady, who replaces Andi Kyriacou. Brady, Court and [...]
Gardaí at Kilkenny are investigating a fatal assault that occurred in the early hours of this morning, Wednesday 15th February 2012. Shortly before 1.30am they received a call to say that a stabbing had occurred in an apartment at Larchfield Court.
Germany’s most famous “big wave surfer” Sebastian Steudtner was in Sligo last week to check out and film the fantastic surfing on offer in this part of Ireland for a new series of online videos. Organised by Tourism Ireland in Frankfurt, the videos are part of a ‘teaser’ trailer for a bigger TV and online [...]
Tom Court, Chris Henry, Paddy Wallace and Dan Tuohy will all be available for Ulster’s RaboDirect PRO12 trip to Cardiff this Friday. The players will be released from the Ireland squad but fellow Internationals Stephen Ferris, Andrew Trimble and Rory Best remain unavailable for selection. Ulster’s 31 man squad contains a mix of youth and [...]
Independent MEP Marian Harkin has called on the Irish government and the European Commission to immediately find a solution that will deliver a fair outcome for Turfcutters who are losing extraction rights on their family bogs. Following a Brussels meeting between South Galway Turfcutters groups and officials from the Commission’s Environment Directorate, which took place [...]
Gardai in Buncrana, County Donegal investigating the circumstances of a fatal shooting last night (9th February 2012) have named the deceased as Andrew Allen. Gardai wish to appeal for witnesses who may have been in the Links View Park area of Buncrana prior to or after the shooting and anyone who may have seen anything unusual [...]
Sligo Senator Susan O’Keeffe has welcomed the announcement by Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport that a nationwide audit of speed limits is to be implemented. The Department willconduct the nationwide audit in conjunction with the National Roads Authority and local authorities. “We all know of roads right across Sligo and Leitrim where the speed [...]
Senator Mary Moran today expressed her disapproval regarding an article on autism written by Tony Humphreys in last week’s Irish Examiner. “I am deeply disappointed by the assertions made by Tony Humphreys that parents of children with autism are the cause of their children’s condition. As a parent of a child on the autistic spectrum, [...]
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